Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has just about no power at all in the U.S. Senate — and he is likely about to lose another member.

West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is considering retiring from the Senate at the end of his term in 2020, giving Republicans a major opportunity to flip his seat from blue to red.

If Manchin retires, Republicans will have the opportunity to add to their 53-47 majority in the upper chamber.

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In moments of frustration, the centrist senator has gone so far as to tell colleagues he may leave the upper chamber before the end of this Congress, or after the 2020 elections.

Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.) keeps a close watch on Manchin, and the senators have a good working relationship. While Schumer recognizes that his West Virginia colleague can get exasperated by dysfunction in the Senate, he believes Manchin is content and engaged in his job.

But Manchin says he’s deeply irritated with the lack of bipartisan cooperation on Capitol Hill, where passing bills has largely become an afterthought in the 116th Congress.

What does Manchin plan to do if he leaves the Senate? Run for governor in West Virginia.

“I have people back home that want me to come back and run for governor. We’re looking at all the different plays. I want to make sure whatever time I have left in public service is productive,” Manchin told The Hill.

When asked by reporters recently if he’s happy with how productive he is in the Senate, Manchin replied, “Not at all.”

“I haven’t been happy since I’ve been here. I’ve always thought there was more we can do. It’s the greatest body in the world, so much good could be done,” he said.

Manchin, who narrowly held onto his seat in the 2018 midterms, leaving the Senate has already freaked out some Democrats.

Speaking to The Hill, one Democratic strategist said if Manchin retires, it is more than likely that Republicans will flip the Senate seat in West Virginia from blue to red.

CNN has lost roughly one third of its primetime viewers this year, but the president of the company is apparently more concerned with being a pervert.

While speaking at the Mirror Awards, CNN head Jeff Zucker stunned many and drew groans from the crowd after telling a sexual joke about CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota.

Referring to Camerota, Zucker said: “I was gonna say that I love waking up WITH YOU every morning, but I want to say that I love waking up TO YOU every morning.”

The joke drew groans from the audience, who obviously thought the comment was highly inappropriate.

Camerota dismissed the social media reaction to Zucker’s joke by claiming everyone jokes about network presidents sleeping with their employees.

“It’s the oldest joke in the book made to morning show anchors, both men and women. I hear it a couple of times a week from people in the grocery store. That isn’t harassment, in my opinion, and I didn’t find it tone deaf, either.”

Can you imagine the outrage if the president of Fox News joked about a sexual encounter with a network anchor or employee?

This has been a tough year for CNN — and it’s not even halfway over yet.

Socialist Rep. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her team apparently don’t think anyone is “entitled” to debate or even speak with the New York lawmaker.

Earlier this week, Ocasio-Cortez’s top spokesman, Corbin Trent, tweeted an expletive at a potential Republican challenger, but deleted it after receiving blow back.

While speaking with the New York Post, conservative radio show host Rich Valdes began by explaining how he tried to confront Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday during the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in Manhattan — but she literally ran away.

After the entire situation made headlines, Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesperson Corbin Trent took to Twitter and responded with profanity.

“Yo @RichValdes what in the actual f**k makes you think you’re entitled to a debate with AOC. Pro tip: stalking her at a parade ain’t gonna make it any more likely to happen,” he wrote.

Below is a screenshot of the tweet, which Corbin has since deleted:

When asked by the Post about his tweet and whether using expletive language was necessary, Trent blamed Valdes and insulted him.

“She kept walking! The parade moved! It’s a procession! Give me a break,” Trent told the Post. “Tell him to run for office and she’ll debate him.”

Trent also admitted that he deleted the tweet.

“I did indeed send that,” he said to The Post. “I did indeed delete it. It didn’t seem that helpful.”

“I regret that so many people right from presidential candidates to right-wing commentators to random people that start organizations think that they’re entitled to people’s time,” he added. “I think she’s spending a ton of time in the district talking about what she’s doing, talking about why she’s doing it and making a case for her policies.”

Imagine the response from Team AOC is someone actually asked her about the numerous allegations that she has broken the law and committed crimes since becoming a member of Congress.

Seems like every time a Democrat gives a speech from the U.S. House floor, they say something utterly outrageous that has to be condemned.

California Democrat Norma J. Torres was condemned this week after she used a portion of her speech from the House floor to say pro-lifers are nothing more than “sex-starved males.”

“Mr. Speaker, it is tiring to hear from so many sex-starved males on this floor talk about a woman’s right to choose,” Torres said as lawmakers debated a rule setting up amendment consideration for a four-bill spending package that includes funding for public health programs.

Torres broke House Rules, as it clearly states that members cannot personally impugn their colleagues on the floor.

Her remarks triggered outrage and grunts from Republicans in the room, with GOP Rep. Rob Woodall getting the presiding officer’s attention and arguing that Torres broke the rule.

When Woodall gave Torres the chance to withdraw her statement and rephrase, she did so.

“Mr. Speaker, if it pleases my colleagues on the other side, I will withdraw my statement about sex-starved males on the floor,” Torres said.

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This is the second time in less than a week that a Democratic lawmaker has been condemned for breaking House rules during a speech from the floor.

While speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Ohio Democrat Rep. Marcia Fudge introduced a letter that she claims one of her constituents wrote to her.

This letter was packed with disgusting comments and insults aimed at Trump and those who support him. And rather than just submit the letter into the record, Fudge took the time to read all of it — a sign that she obviously supports the abhorrent comments in the letter.

“A mobster, a con man, a gangster in the White House? I think so,” Fudge began, reading from the letter.

“It is glaringly apparent that many who support the present administration are either racist, steeped in religious beliefs, ignorant, or, as my mother used to say, just plain dumb,” Fudge read.

“They have chosen to support a president who has a proven record of being sexually condescending to women,” she continued.

“Will not oppose the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate organizations, is indecisive, is condescending to anyone who challenge him, and hides behind his twitter account rather than dealing with the real issues in our country and around the world,” she added.

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Back in April, Democrat National Committee Chairman Tom Perez labeled Americans who support the president as “cowards” who will be “judged harshly.”

Seems like every time Democrats open their mouths, they find a way to insult Trump and his supporters.

ABC’s “The View” co-host Joy Behar loathes President Donald Trump so much that apparently thinks it’s acceptable to “joke” about him not living much longer.

During a segment on the show this week, the panel discussed rumors about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden having health concerns.

Co-host Meghan McCain said, “There’s a lot of things I really hate about primary politics, but one of them is health conspiracies. I hate it, it happened with my father, it happened with Michele Bachmann.”

McCain continued, “It happened obviously to Hillary Clinton, it’s now happening to Joe Biden, I think it’s the lowest common denominator, dirtiest form of politics. I think I’m both sides we should stop it, I think it’s disgusting. It’s actually hurtful, can be very harmful to families in that position.”

Behar then jumped in with a disgusting comment of her own.

“Especially since he’s one cheeseburger away from keeling over himself,” Behar said.

Co-host Sunny Hostin said, “We saw that Sean Hannity on Fox News started that talking again about the sort of conspiracy about Joe Biden’s health and I thought, you know that’s coming also from the White House, because we know Hannity has been the president’s mouthpiece for so long, and to see that on a news network, on an alleged news network, is just really terrible.”

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Sadly, this is the second time Behar has “joked” about Trump potentially not living much longer.

Late last year, Behar said she didn’t want Trump to live for another 20 years.

“This man will never apologize. If he lives another 20 years, God forbid, if he lives another 20 years — well, he could be, like, 105 by the time he … he, you know, we’ve got him here for the next…”

Of course, this is also the same woman who mocked Vice President Mike Pence and Christians as having a mental disease for having faith in God; called Republicans “Nazis“; said Trump should be “hospitalized” for defending Americans; and claimed Trump’s election victory was worse for America than the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Conservatives continue to be baffled at how she still has a job, but the crazier a Never-Trumper, the more airtime cable news gives these talking heads.

Is House Speaker Nancy Pelosi starting to crack? This has not been a good month for the California Democrat, and it got even worse on Tuesday.

While speaking with CNN’s Manu Raju at an event at the Peter G. Peterson Foundation’s 2019 Fiscal Summit, Pelosi was visibly frustrated and angered by questions about President Donald Trump.

It didn’t matter what the question was; if Trump’s name was mentioned, Pelosi was not having it. At one point, she was so angered that she shouted, “I’m done with that!”

Raju began by asking Pelosi about Trump’s migration deal with Mexico, which was reached over the weekend after the president threatened to slap Mexico with a 5 percent tariff if they did not begin doing more to combat immigrants marching towards America.

“Another issue over the weekend was the president backing off his threat on tariffs on Mexico, he says that he deserves credit for enforcing, forcing Mexico to take a tougher line on the immigration issue. Do you think the president…” Raju began.

Pelosi cut him off, interrupting him to rudely say, “If I had been invited to talk about the president, I would have had more important work to do at home.”

“But do you think the president deserves credit?” Raju followed-up.

Still looking frustrated, Pelosi shot back: “No. Everybody knows that those issues were, if they were agreed to, they were agreed to long before the president made the announcement, a, but they were designed to take your attention away from the Mueller report, look at the timing.”

“But the fact is that I come here, each year, very complimented to have the invitation of the Peterson family,” Pelosi continued.

“I want to ask you a question about the budget,” Raju said.

“Oh my goodness! “Glory hallelujah!” Pelosi mockingly said, with members of the crowd applauding.

Pelosi then accused Raju of actually being in cahoots with the White House to derail her at the event.

“But I will not be part of the diversion tactics of the White House that you are obviously into,” Pelosi said

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Earlier this month, Pelosi came under fire for claiming that people who want President Trump impeached are “patriots” who love their country.

Pelosi continues to make the perfect case for term limits in Congress.

Watch out, deplorables! Democrats are now calling you “ignorant,” “racist,” and “plain dumb” for supporting President Donald Trump.

While speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, Ohio Democrat Rep. Marcia Fudge introduced a letter that she claims one of her constituents wrote to her.

This letter was packed with disgusting comments and insults aimed at Trump and those who support him. And rather than just submit the letter into the record, Fudge took the time to read all of it — a sign that she obviously supports the abhorrent comments in the letter.

“A mobster, a con man, a gangster in the White House? I think so,” Fudge began, reading from the letter.

“It is glaringly apparent that many who support the present administration are either racist, steeped in religious beliefs, ignorant, or, as my mother used to say, just plain dumb,” Fudge read.

“They have chosen to support a president who has a proven record of being sexually condescending to women,” she continued.

“Will not oppose the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and other hate organizations, is indecisive, is condescending to anyone who challenge him, and hides behind his twitter account rather than dealing with the real issues in our country and around the world,” she added.

While still reading from the letter, Fudge described the Republican party as a “Trump cult” and accused the president of being a “proven liar.”

Watch the clip below:

Fudge is hardly the first prominent Democrats to disgustingly slander Trump voters.

Back in April, Democrat National Committee Chairman Tom Perez labeled Americans who support the president as “cowards” who will be “judged harshly.”

“The thing is, they are cowardly. I mean, history will not only judge Donald Trump harshly, it will judge Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan, and all the other cowards who refused to stand up to this president and allowed the party of Lincoln to die,” Perez said.

Seems like every time Democrats open their mouths, they find a way to insult Trump and his supporters.

The 2020 presidential election is roughly 17 months away, but some liberals are already worried about whether the Democrats can defeat President Donald Trump.

And rather than offer a viable plan to win over voters, a prominent CNN analyst believes the Democrats’ key to winning is to slander voters in certain states.

During a segment Tuesday morning on CNN’s “New Day,” network analyst Jeffrey Toobin lost his mind over earlier primary states hurting “good” Democratic candidates, saying people in New Hampshire and Iowa “should go to hell.”

Below is a partial transcript of the exchange:

GOLODRYGA: “Within the primaries, you’re looking at Joe Biden really wanting to bypass any competition internally amongst Democrats. He is focused on the President. I think his bigger issue, at least over the next few months, is standing out among the other nominees, and not to assume that he is the presumptive nominee s well.”
TOOBIN: “Can I say something with love to the people of New Hampshire and Iowa?”
CAMEROTA: “I’m sure they’ll feel it that way.”
TOOBIN: “They should go to hell. Why do they get to see all the presidential candidates and the other 48 states don’t get to see them? Who elected them?”
CAMEROTA: “That is a love letter.”
TOOBIN: “Really.”
CAMEROTA: “That is a love letter.”
GOLODRYGA: “I’m not co-signing.”

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CNN has made it more than clear in recent weeks how badly they want Trump defeated in 2020 — no matter what the cost is.

Last month, network contributor and Democratic strategist Paul Begala said he wants to beat Trump so badly that he would vote for a Democrat who shot his dog if it meant that Democrat could beat the president in the election.

“This is what I’m looking for: I’m a JFK Democrat,” Begala said. “I will pay any price, bear any burden, support any friend, oppose any foe to ensure the defeat of Donald J. Trump. You could be for Medicare-For-All or not, you could shoot my dog and if I think you can beat Trump, I’m going to be for you.”

Liberals are likely not happy that liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is praising her conservative colleague Brett Kavanaugh for his historical accomplishment.

While speaking at a conference in New York for judges, Ginsburg praised Kavanaugh for becoming the first Supreme Court Justice to hire all female law clerks to serve the court.

“Justice Kavanaugh made history by bringing on board an all-female law clerk crew. Thanks to his selections, the Court has this Term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks,” she said.

“[But] women did not fare nearly as well as advocates,” Ginsburg continued. “Only about 21% of the attorneys presenting oral argument this Term were female; of the thirty-four attorneys who appeared more than once, only six were women.”

Her remarks come several months after Democrats waged war against Kavanaugh and did everything imaginable to block his appointment to the Supreme Court.

Kavanaugh fought back hard against the disgusting allegations that Democrats levied against him and was confirmed by the Senate back in October after being nominated by President Trump.

Christine Blasey Ford, the most notable accuser of all, alleged Kavanaugh pinned her down and attempted to grope her during a party roughly 36 years ago.

Ford had absolutely no evidence or witnesses to corroborate her claims.

Liberals called Kavanaugh “evil,” said his confirmation to the Supreme Court would “kill people,” and falsely accused him of being a sexual predator who literally took part in drugging girls and taking part in gang rapes.

Democrats stooped as low as humanly possible to destroy Kavanaugh, but now Ginsburg — arguably the most liberal Justice of them all — is praising Trump’s pick for his work to help women.

CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta is promoting his new book by pushing a baseless conspiracy theory and claiming that President Donald Trump is putting reporters “lives at risk.”

While speaking with CNN’s Brian Stelter about his new book, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America,” Acosta was given all the time he wanted to question Trump’s mental health and claim, without any evidence, that the president is “crazy.”

“I tell folks I’m not a psychiatrist so I can’t assess the president’s mental state, but I will tell you my sense of it is covering him for a pretty long period of time now is he’s more crazy like a fox,” Acosta said.

“What Trump tries to do is really control the narrative by saying sensational things that sound wild and nutty sometimes and he does this because he knows it dominates the news cycle,” Acosta said. “That makes it a priority for us in the news business to talk about him nonstop and he loves that and he capitalizes on that.”

Stelter then cited a section in Acosta’s book, where he claimed an unnamed source called Trump “insane.”

“I went back later to this official and I said why did you say that?” Acosta said, saying the official told him, “‘I was just frustrated with the president’s lack of understanding of the Constitution, the constraints placed on the presidency.’”

Acosta has been using this logic for quite some time, and claimed earlier this year that Trump’s “tone” has created an environment where journalists can be killed.

While speaking before the Oxford Union Society in the United Kingdom, Acosta complained about Trump referring to the media as the “enemy of the people” could help create an environment where journalists are killed.

“Perhaps they won’t stop calling us the enemy of the people because it works so well with their people, but all of this adds up to one painful reality: this is a dangerous time to tell the truth in America,” Acosta began, adding that proponents of such rhetoric create “an atmosphere where people can get hurt, where journalists can get murdered.”

According to Acosta, Trump’s rhetoric could lead to journalists being killed and his administration poses a direct threat to America’s democracy.

Acosta has a long history of controversial comments and making everything about himself.

Late last year, he wrote “f**k you” on Twitter to former White House official because he teased the CNN reporter for whining about music being too loud at a Trump rally.

Prior to that, Acosta stormed out of a White House press briefing and tweeted, “I’m over this” after getting owned by White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.